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Of course “vice presidents can’t simply decide not to certify an election”. No one with half a brain thinks that.
However, when it appears that there has been serious and purposeful fraud that may have ruined the legitimacy of an election the VP is one of the firewalls that our Founding Fathers put into place to bring that perfidy to light and perhaps start a process to correct the situation.
Presidents are appointed (indirectly) by State Legislatures.
Please show me where in the Constitution any element of the Federal government (President, VP, Senate, House, USSC) is granted the responsibility OR the authority to "certify" the incoming President.
You can't, because it isn't there.
Congress can choose between competing slates of Electors, when any such exist (there were none in 2021). Congress could, I suppose, flee to West Virginia and refuse to count the electoral votes, but the President-Elect would still present himself to a Federal judge at noon on January 20 and be sworn in, his right to the office being NO WAY dependent on action or inaction by Congress.
I don't know how many times on this pro-Constitution website I have seen people talking about Pence, or Congress, "certifying" the election as if that was a thing.
It isn't, and it never has been.
Rubio you are showing you’re too stupid to even be a senator....andthats a pretty low bar.
Because Rubio is good on a lot of things, and this can only be helpful to Trump.
I think Trump made a lot of serious mistakes in being so insulting to his Republican opponents, and he was particularly nasty to Rubio. Trump forgot that he was going to have to work with them later. He was harsher on his GOP rivals than on the Dems.
But Rubio has been pretty good on a lot of issues, and he’s certainly right on this one.
Criticize people when they’re wrong, support them when they’re right.
Then he doesn't have the power to certify either senator? Why not just have the bellhop do the job then instead of a high priced vice president?
If we don't have election integrity marco we don't have a country. And at this point we don't have election integrity....
Grow up little man.
Straw man, rubio.
Rubot is getting involved because the heat is getting too hot for Mike Pence, so the Deep State has to call out their other whipping boy.
Rubio is carelessly framing the issue. All the RINOs do that.
Pence was asked by over 100 state legislators to wait so that the legislatures of those states could use their plenary constitutional powers to determine if those slates of electors were valid.
What is the purpose of certification if non-certification isn’t an option?
That’s quite alright, Boobio. Sending disputed electoral slates back to the states to work out would not necessarily overturn or decertify an election.
What. No backup plan? No valid election if the vp can’t or won’t? Bull,
LOL. That's exactly what all far-left Democrats/RINOs and the entire MSM have been repeatedly saying for the past two years: The election's over (nothing to see here) - it's time for all Americans to "move on."
Far-left Dems/RINOs (and the far-left MSM) are really good at brainwashing American voters 24/7/365. Even Republican voters are cluelessly repeating the same talking points. Rep. Sen. Ted Cruz recently called Trump's January 6 Republican supporters "terrorists." And we could go down the list of many other Republicans mimicking far-left Dem/RINO talking points about the "election" but at this point, we've already heard too much brainwashing language by the Dems/RINOs themselves.
Very successful, extremely popular U.S. President Trump "lost" to "the worst Presidential candidate" in American history (as Trump accurately describes Biden). During his 2020 campaign, Trump even said to his huge rally crowds, If I lose to "the worst candidate" in U.S. Presidential history, I will be really "embarrassed." Senile Sleepy Joe mostly hid in his basement during his entire "campaign" while President Trump vigorously campaigned to large enthusiastic crowds throughout the country. Nevertheless, senile Sleepy Joe "won" the election with the most votes ever - 81 Million votes - making senile Sleepy Joe "the most popular President in U.S. history," by far. (Well, that previous statement is the election storyline the far-left Dems/RINOs desperately want the American people to somehow believe.)
It has been a busy morning for the RINO’S on the Sunday talk shows.
Here are the threads:
@ChadPergram Barrasso on Fox: I voted to certify the election and I think Mike Pence did his constitutional duty that day. It’s not the Congress that elects the President, it is the American people
Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that former President Donald Trump “told the truth by accident,” when he said he wanted then-President-elect Joe Biden’s win “overturned.” Friday former Vice President Mike Pence rebuffed the idea he could have overturned the election by refusing the state electors on January 6, 2021.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday said “vice presidents can’t simply decide not to certify an election,” breaking with former President Trump
If the VP has only one course of action, then why is his certification required or necessary?
For any presiding officer of the electoral college to deliberately not act to address a fraudulent election is treason and Pence knows it. January 6 was no magic date requiring certification and Pence knows it. He is a coward and a traitor and a disgrace to his military son.
Maybe, but when teh electors are chosen improperly, they should be decertified.
The Constitution specifies that “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...” and at least five states conducted the election in a manner NOT conducted “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct,” but instead imposed by courts, election bureaucrats, or governors.
Had those electors been disqualified due to being improperly selected, President Trump would have had a majority of those remaining.
I guess Rubio forgets what state he lives in.
Who took him out of his box?
Hey Rubio, perhaps you too want to participate in Nuremberg Trials 2.0— in the same way as the Nazis participated in the first one?